Aussie Open contributor Benjamin Snyder is back for more. Taking on the longest of tasks: short balls. Back in the habit: Vera – circa USO 2009 – got the meltdown bug again last week in Thailand. (Getty Images) Well, it looks like we’re back to some shaky form for the top women — and, man, […]

Andrey Golubev has made history by being the first player from Kazakhstan to win a title. He upset the 15th-ranked (and 2010 Roland Garros semifinalist) Jurgen Melzer 6-3, 7-5 in the final of the German Open in Hamburg. The thirty pounds Mardy Fish lost in the last year certainly came in handy in winning the […]

Fila chose to go with “zig zag mesh” as their theme for this year’s Wimbledon, putting the ladies in pieces from the Collezione line. They’ve got all the basics in simple silhouettes — cami, tank, polo, double layer tank, skort, dress — with eyelets, ruffling, and ric rac trim (on the skort) to add some […]

Nadia Petrova‘s been trying to change a lot of things about her tennis life. First, she very recently started working with a coach — an arrangement she made with ITA. She expressed that the relationship was still young (they’ve only been working for a week or so), but comes at a very crucial time (it’s […]